Event: [General Military Events] World-Wide

Taking place
14 Jan 2012through 14 Jan 2030
(Recurring Event)

◆1659 Battle of Elvas: Portuguese defeat Spanish.◆1741 Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut; died in London, England, 14 June, 1801.◆1766 The English Parliament convenes and immediately begins to reconsider the repercussions of the Stamp Act. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Greenville advocates enforcement of the act by military force, while William Pitt supports the repeal of the Stamp Act, citing the principle of taxation without representation.◆1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England, the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.◆1797 Battle of Rivoli Veronese: Massena's French defeat the Austrians.◆1861 Union forces under General William T. Sherman occupy Meridian, Mississippi. His forces destroy supplies, bridges and railroads.◆1911 The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.◆1920 Caco insurrectionists were defeated in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.◆1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered all U.S. aliens to register with the government.◆1942 A small group of Japanese reinforcements lands near Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, to prepare positions in that area to cover the planned evacuation.◆1944 On New Britain, the fighting around the Cape Gloucester bridgehead continues. While the Japanese can score no positive success, they do manage to hold up the US advance.◆1944 The major rail unions accept terms suggested by President Roosevelt, avoiding a threatened strike. The railroads have, in fact, been run under the authority of Secretary of War Stimson since 27 December. They will be returned to private ownership and operation on 18 January.◆1945 The US 1st Army achieves an advance 2 miles toward St. Vith in continuing attacks. British forces attacking southward from Laroche link up with elements of US 3rd Army advancing northwest from Bastogne◆1945 The US 8th Air Force resumes strategic operations after a month-long pause caused by the Battle of the Bulge. Some 600 B-17 and B-24 bombers strike oil targets and encounter heavy resistance from Luftwaffe fighters.◆1951 Chinese Communist forces reached their furthest extent of advance into South Korea with the capture of Wonju.◆1953 Fifth Air Force F-86 Sabres destroyed eight MiG-15s, the most since Sept. 4, 1952. Fighters and light bombers continued to pound Sinanju while B-29s hit the rail yard at Chonguyong-ni and an ore processing area at Kajanbaeji.◆1960 Elvis Presley was promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army.◆1968 U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh. The Khe Sanh base was the westernmost anchor of a series of combat bases and strongholds that stretched from the Cua Viet River on the coast of the South China Sea westward along Route 9 to the Laotian border. Intelligence sources revealed that the North Vietnamese Army was beginning to build up its forces in the area surrounding Khe Sanh. Operation Niagara was a joint U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air campaign launched in support of the marines manning the base. Using sensors installed along the nearby DMZ and reconnaissance flights to pinpoint targets, 24,000 tactical fighter-bomber sorties and 2,700 B-52 strategic bomber sorties were flown between the start of the operation and March 31, 1968, when it was terminated. This airpower played a major role in the successful defense of Khe Sanh when it came under attack on January 21 and was subsequently besieged for 66 days until finally broken on April 7.★◆1993 Operation Condor Ratchet. 6 UH-60 Blackhawks from the 10th Mountain Division, carrying Alpha Co. 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, Air-Assaults in and surrounds Abu Airfield next to village of Afgoy, Somalia.◆2002 US warplanes began to seal caves near Khost, Afghanistan.

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